Tow Car Award Winners 2017

I’m going to go through each car and tell you it’s GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight) and what you are allowed to tow with a Cat B licence:

*Up to 1400kg Skoda Octavia Estate 2.0TDi 150PS DSG

GVW 1944kg

Towing limit 1800kg

Keep within 3500kg limit you can tow a caravan with a MTPLM of 1556kg

The award winner is the DSG gearbox model which weighs 20kg more than the 6 speed manual.

This is a very good car for Cat B licence holders as it has a relatively low GVW of less than 2 tonnes, and a high towing limit, as well as being a tow car award winner and as such is worth putting on your short-list.

The Bigger the Car – The Smaller the Caravan

As you can see from the above data, the car which most efficiently uses the 3500kg weight limit is the Skoda Octavia Estate with a capability to tow a caravan weighing 1556kg.

It’s rather frustrating that we have to balance car and caravan weights in this way when obviously to tow a particular sized caravan, the bigger the towing vehicle the better, but unfortunately that’s what we have to comply with at present.

I’m writing to every caravan manufacturer and trade body to see if we can raise this issue with the government with the objective of changing the law, if you’d like to help with this aim please get in touch.